The French philosopher Jacques Ranciere has influenced disciplines
from history and philosophy to political theory, literature, art
history, and film studies. His research into nineteenth-century
workers' archives, reflections on political equality, critique of
the traditional division between intellectual and manual labor, and
analysis of the place of literature, film, and art in modern
society have all constituted major contributions to contemporary
thought. In this collection, leading scholars in the fields of
philosophy, literary theory, and cultural criticism engage
Ranciere's work, illuminating its originality, breadth, and rigor,
as well as its place in current debates. They also explore the
relationships between Ranciere and the various authors and artists
he has analyzed, ranging from Plato and Aristotle to Flaubert,
Rossellini, Auerbach, Bourdieu, and Deleuze.
The contributors to this collection do not simply elucidate
Ranciere's project; they also critically respond to it from their
own perspectives. They consider the theorist's engagement with the
writing of history, with institutional and narrative constructions
of time, and with the ways that individuals and communities can
disturb or reconfigure what he has called the "distribution of the
sensible." They examine his unique conception of politics as the
disruption of the established distribution of bodies and roles in
the social order, and they elucidate his novel account of the
relationship between aesthetics and politics by exploring his
astute analyses of literature and the visual arts. In the
collection's final essay, Ranciere addresses some of the questions
raised by the other contributors and returns to his early work to
provide a retrospective account of the fundamental stakes of his
project.
"Contributors." Alain Badiou, etienne Balibar, Bruno Bosteels,
Yves Citton, Tom Conley, Solange Guenoun, Peter Hallward, Todd May,
Eric Mechoulan, Giuseppina Mecchia, Jean-Luc Nancy, Andrew Parker,
Jacques Ranciere, Gabriel Rockhill, Kristin Ross, James Swenson,
Rajeshwari Vallury, Philip Watts
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